Monday, 16 September 2013
The program for this year’s National Young Writers’ Festival in Newcastle, New South Wales, has been announced. The festival, which runs from 3 to 6 October, promises to showcase the ‘best...

Friday, 13 September 2013
Island magazine has received $60,000 in funding from Arts Tasmania for 2014, matching the $60,000 in funding it received for 2013. The Tasmanian Arts Advisory board said in a statement that...

Thursday, 12 September 2013
A number of Australian authors have signed up to an interactive storytelling project that uses maps and QR codes to allow readers to follow a story in the location in...

Thursday, 12 September 2013
New Zealand novelist Rachael King has been appointed as the new literary director for the Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival. King is the author of two adult novels, The Sound of...

Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Traditional Healers of Central Australia: Ngangkari by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council Aboriginal Corporation (Magabala) has won the Deadly Award for Published Book of the Year 2013. The winning...

Wednesday, 11 September 2013
The Luminaries by New Zealand author Eleanor Catton (Granta) is one of six books shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize. The full shortlist is: We Need New Names (NoViolet...

Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Tim Cope’s On the Trail of Genghis Khan (Bloomsbury) has topped the bestsellers list at this year’s Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), with nonfiction and children’s books taking out the top...

Wednesday, 11 September 2013
‘It could well be the first major report into the Australian book industry that effectively grapples with most of the deep-rooted structural issues besetting it in these times of profound...

Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Australian animation company Resin has created an app that uses 3D animation to transform Bloomsbury’s children’s book Two Left Feet (Adam Stower) into a ‘modern-day pop-up book’. The app, which...

Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Ian Moir, former co-owner of Moirs Bookshop in Lane Cove, Sydney, has died, aged 79. Peribo owner Eddie Coffey writes: ‘I first met Ian in the early 1970s when he...

Monday, 9 September 2013
The winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing were announced at the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) on 7 September. The award for best fiction was presented to Blackwattle...

Monday, 9 September 2013
In first place on the bestsellers chart and the fastest movers chart this week is the action-thriller Never Go Back (Lee Child, Bantam), which sees Jack Reacher returning to the headquarters...

Monday, 9 September 2013
Ian Moir, former co-owner of Moirs Bookshop in Lane Cove, Sydney, has died, aged 79. Family and friends are invited to attend a celebration of his life to be held...

Friday, 6 September 2013
Bloomsbury Publishing has acquired over 200 natural history titles from New Holland Publishers, which it plans to integrate into its own natural history list. The New Holland titles acquired by...

Friday, 6 September 2013
The winners of the 2013 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Writers’ Awards for nonfiction have been announced. Geoff Chapple will receive one of the $35,000 prizes for his nonfiction book project ‘Terrain:...

Thursday, 5 September 2013
New Zealand educational publisher Learning Media will close within coming months. The board of Learning Media said in a statement on 4 September that the government-owned company will be ‘wound...

Thursday, 5 September 2013
The guest line-up for the first Body in the Garden festival in Adelaide, South Australia, has been announced. The festival, which is for writers of crime and garden books, will...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The Copyright Agency will launch an etextbook subscription service for secondary schools called LearningField at the beginning of 2014. The digital platform, which allows teachers and educators to aggregate learning materials...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013
This year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has recorded another boost in box-office takings. Although ‘detailed figures’ are still being collated, the festival reports that it has ‘surpassed last year’s record-breaking...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has died, aged 74. Heaney is the author of numerous poetry and prose collections, including Death of a Naturalist, Field Work, The Spirit...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013
‘Schools have been hoping for a “one stop shop” across multiple resource providers that works on multiple devices’—Cambridge University Press executive director Mark O’Neil on the benefits of LearningField, a...